The coal industry has moved mountains - literally. Or, destroyed them, rather. It is a toxic presence in our environment, and the sooner coal is deserted as a fuel the better we all will be.

2:42 pm September 20, 2012

Curtis wrote:

Mitt has a solution for everything and a job for everyone. Just don't ask about the details.

2:47 pm September 20, 2012

Lose more jobs in already hurting areas wrote:

make energy more expensive. The new Democratic way ?

Hmmm.....perhaps we should just go all nuclear, no chance of toxic there.

2:48 pm September 20, 2012

I know wrote:

let's just grow more corn to heat our homes since it is so cost efficient and has worked so well in our gas tanks.

2:50 pm September 20, 2012

pyeatte wrote:

It is obvious to anyone who is awake that the Obama Administration is waging a war on coal. That they can lie so flagrantly about it speaks to the Alinsky philosophy to which they adhere to. Just keep repeating a lie because enough people will believe it.

How can an inmate in West Virginia beat out a president in his party's primary?

Obama's war on coal miners.

2:53 pm September 20, 2012

Hardy har wrote:

Anonymous will need a hamster in a wheel to power his computer on rainy days with no wind, under the Obama plan.

3:07 pm September 20, 2012

It's kind of like the war on smokers wrote:

Seems the government cannot control all of the drug addicts and alcoholics....so they target those they can control, the smokers, in the name of health.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't smoke, but find it rather amusing that people fry their brains with drugs, kill innocent people behind the wheel......yet in the name of health, we tell smokers how many feet they have to stay away from a building, while 1 out of 8 admissions to ER's is drug related. Booze flows freely, and alcoholism is epidemic proportion.

So....there is a war on coal, while we eat out of plastic that carcinogens leech out of , dye and unhealthy food additives, and drink water with doses of antibiotics and anti depressants where other people pee pee it out, not to mention the drugs given to our meat sources....whiile we are focusing on coal ?

Regulate urine of people on drugs, make the gov stop paying people to grow corn which is tied to obesity, stop feeding animals for ingestion so many drugs, ban plastic dishes and baby bottles...if you care.

3:08 pm September 20, 2012

Solyndra wrote:

How did that green thingy work out for everyone?

3:09 pm September 20, 2012

Obama has failed on energy wrote:

So has Chu. We gave a lot of money to his supporters, in the name of his green quest....and lost it.

Maybe the Mission of the EPA should become solutions rather then enforcement. EPA has become Enforce, Punish, & Antagonize, what has the EPA done since it's conception to move Environment and Energy technology forward? Nothing.... There is nothing wrong with coal, the problem is not enough effort has been put into the research of better methods to extract energy from carbon and further sequestering by product. We don't need government agency running around telling industry they are doing it wrong, we need agencies who's Mission Statement is a centric collection of industry, research and technology to Environmental Protection through solutions.

3:58 pm September 20, 2012

AreVee wrote:

No power company would build a coal-fired plant today. Coal cannot compete on a $/BTU basis, it is yesterday's news and needs to die a quiet death, for many reasons.

4:13 pm September 20, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Natural gas is killing coal - not Obama

Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or a partisan hack (possibly both)

4:15 pm September 20, 2012

D wrote:

Im amazed this story didn't include this tidbit:
Romney shafts coal miners...

"..If some of the coal miners standing with Mitt Romney in his new campaign ad don’t look happy, it’s probably because they’re not.
The campaign pulled the footage for its new “War on Coal” spot from a recent Ohio rally that some coal miners complained they were forced to take a day off WITHOUT PAY to attend"

Source: Politico

4:31 pm September 20, 2012

Mitt wrote:

"Jesus, I gotta change the subject from that 47% thing or I'm gonna lose. Let's see...aliens in the Artic? Guns fur everyone? No...Energy? Hmmm...Solar energy? Naw, too hippy-ish...Coal! Yeah...Americans love coal! Some Americans are even the color of coal! YEAH!"

5:24 pm September 20, 2012

Obama is not a friend of Coal Miners wrote:

Under Obama, energy costs will skyrocked and coal plants will go bankrupt...a plan that kills jobs from the coal mills straight through power production and beyond.

5:26 pm September 20, 2012

DBJ wrote:

Looks like the WSJ has got it's **** together today- much tighter in electioneering for the not so GOP. I assume that Rupert has read the riot act....

5:32 pm September 20, 2012

The 19th century called wrote:

...they want their filthy pollutants back. Natural gas is cleaner and extracting it is far less destructive to the environment; the supply is way up and the price is way down. Coal causes many thousands of deaths from radioactivity every year, to say nothing of the particulate pollution. It has some uses as a feedstock for new materials, but as a fuel? forget it.

5:36 pm September 20, 2012

Fracking wrote:

is fun.

5:37 pm September 20, 2012

Obama's energy plan wrote:

Uh, uh...this winter, I want all of you folks out there to beat your arms to stay warm, and when I hear all that noise, I will know that you are clapping for me.

5:42 pm September 20, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Hey! Is Mitt attempting to change the subject?

5:42 pm September 20, 2012

Why do liberals wrote:

want dirty water and earthquakes tied to fracking?

Stop whining about coal, if you don't know what natural gas is responsible for.
Environmentally ignorant????

5:44 pm September 20, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Since when do neocons care two hoots about dirty water and... earthquakes? You're a hack.

5:45 pm September 20, 2012

Fracking wastewater wrote:

is a toxic mess.....so either admit that you are for dirty water, so that we can stay warm, or stop complaining about coal.
Anyone with a brain knows that there are environmental effects to anything we do.

5:48 pm September 20, 2012

To 544 wrote:

You don't want to go there with me, hubby is an environmental engineer.

Type fracking waste water in that little bar that allows you to search the world.

Point is, you are singing the praises of something that is not environmentally friendly. Neither is coal.
Had you rather go Amish?

12:54 pm September 21, 2012

LOL wrote:

What happened to anonymous the energy expert?

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